2004 Husky Football
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 2004 HUSKY FOOTBALL www.gohuskies.com Contacts: Jim Daves, Jeff Bechthold & Brian Beaky • (206) 543-2230 • Fax (206) 543-5000 2004 HUSKY SCHEDULE / RESULTS WASHINGTON vs. WASHINGTON STATE Sept. 5 FRESNO STATE (Fox Sports Net) L, 35-16 UW Closes Out 2004 Season With Apple Cup In Pullman Sept. 18 UCLA (ABC-TV) L, 31-37 Sept. 25 at Notre Dame (NBC-TV) L, 3-38 THE GAME: The Washington football team (1-9 overall, 0-6 in the Pac-10 Conference) closes out the 2004 Oct. 2 at Stanford L, 13-27 season with its traditional rivalry game – the Apple Cup vs. Washington State. Saturday’s game, Nov. 20 at Oct. 9 SAN JOSE STATE W, 21-6 4:00 p.m. PST, will take place at Martin Stadium in Pullman and will air live on ABC-TV to a regional audience Oct. 16 OREGON STATE L, 29-14 (see page two for more on TV coverage). Neither the Huskies or the Cougars (4-5 overall, 2-5 Pac-10) can earn Oct. 23 at USC (Fox Sports Net) L, 38-0 a bowl-game berth this season. In fact, this is the first Apple Cup since 1976 in which both teams entered the Oct. 30 at Oregon (Fox Sports Northwest) L, 31-6 game with losing records. That year, a 4-6 (going into the game) Husky team beat a 3-7 Cougar club, 51-32, in Nov. 6 ARIZONA L, 23-13 a game played in Spokane. Saturday’s game is also the Huskies’ final contest under head coach Keith Gilbertson, Nov. 13 CALIFORNIA L, 42-12 who will step down from his post following the season. The Huskies have won six consecutive Apple Cups, Nov. 20 at Washington State (ABC-TV) 4:00 p.m. dating back to a loss in 1997, and eight of the last nine. all times are Pacific and subject to change HUSKIES vs. COUGARS HISTORY: The Washington-Washington State series dates back to 1900, when the teams played to a 5-5 tie in Seattle, but only since 1962 has the winner been awarded the Apple 2004 PAC-10 STANDINGS Cup trophy. Prior to the institution of the Apple Cup trophy, the winner of the Washington-WSU game was Team Pac-10 Overall awarded the Governor’s Trophy from 1934 to 1961. Washington holds a commanding 63-27-6 edge in the 96- 1. USC 7-0 10-0 game series, including a 31-10 record in Apple Cup games. The UW is 14-11-1 in games played in Pullman 2. California 6-1 8-1 and 7-4-0 in games at Martin Stadium. Washington also holds a 13-3-0 mark in Spokane, where the Cougars 3. Arizona State 5-2 8-2 hosted many of their home Apple Cups in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The Huskies have won the last six Apple 4. UCLA 4-3 6-4 Cup games overall and have emerged victorious in Martin Stadium in each of their last four visits. Last year, 5. Oregon 4-3 5-5 Washington pulled a third-straight upset (by AP ranking) in the series when an unranked Husky team notched Oregon State 4-3 5-5 a 27-19 win over No. 8 Washington State. In the last Apple Cup played in Pullman, in a game that surely ranks 7. Stanford 2-5 4-6 as one of the most memorable ever in the series, Washington shocked the No. 3 Cougars with a triple- Washington State 2-5 4-6 overtime, 29-26 win, despite trailing by 10 with only 4:30 to play. Three seasons ago, when the two teams 9. Arizona 1-6 2-8 met at Husky Stadium, the 16th-ranked Huskies upset the No. 9 Cougars with a 26-14 win. Washington has 10. Washington 0-7 1-9 won 12 of the last 15 vs. WSU and 23 of the last 30. Despite being only seven miles or so down the road from Pullman during his three-year tenure as head coach at Idaho, Husky coach Keith Gilbertson never faced the LAST WEEK’S PAC-10 RESULTS Cougars as a Vandal. However, Gilbertson did square off vs. WSU three times during his four seasons in California 42, Washington 12 charge at California. The Bears went 1-2 in those three games: a 34-7 loss at Pullman in 1993, a 26-23 loss at USC 49, Arizona 9 Berkeley in 1994, and a 27-11 win at Berkeley in 1995. With UW’s win last year, Gilbertson holds a 2-2 record Arizona State 45, Washington State 28 against the Cougars as a head coach. Washington State's Bill Doba, in his second season as a college head UCLA 34, Oregon 26 coach, had obviously never faced Washington in that capacity before last season, making him 0-1 as a head Oregon State 24, Stanford 19 man against his cross-state rival. However, as an assistant, he has been on the winning sideline vs. the UW four times in 15 tries (1-0 as an assistant at Indiana in 1978 and 3-11 as a WSU assistant from 1989 to 2002). COMING UP IN THE PAC-10 Washington at Washington State (Nov. 20) DAWGS AND THE NORTHWEST: Washington’s oldest and longest rivalries are against the other Oregon at Oregon State (Nov. 20) three other northwest Pac-10 schools. The Huskies have faced Washington State 96 times, Oregon in 96 games and Oregon State on 89 occasions. Washington owns the advantage in all three series. The Huskies Stanford at California (Nov. 20) lead the Ducks 58-34-5, Washington State 63-27-6 and Oregon State 57-28-4. Combined, Washington has a Arizona at Arizona State (Nov. 26) 178-89-15 (.658) record against its northwest rivals, including a sweep of all three in both 2002 and 2003. Notre Dame at USC (Nov. 27 USC at UCLA (Dec. 4) TELEVISION: The Washington-Washington State game will air live to a regional audience on ABC-TV with California at Southern Mississippi (Dec. 4) Keith Jackson, Dan Fouts and Todd Harris on the call. KOMO-TV in Seattle will carry a one-hour pregame and one-hour postgame show while Fox Sports will also have a post-game show. The game will also air on tape QUICK HITS delay, Sunday, Nov. 21, at 4:00 p.m., on Fox Sports Net with Jim Watson, Sonny Sixkiller and Mark Rypien • All three UW starting linebackers currently rank among calling the action. Additionally, “Husky Football Experience” will air the following Thursday, Nov. 25, at 10:30 the top six in the Pac-10 in tackles: No. 3 Joe p.m. and Friday, Nov. 26, at 4:00 p.m. on Fox Sports Net. Lobendahn (10.0 per game), No. 4 Evan Benjamin (9.5) and No. 6 Scott White (8.3). RADIO: The Husky Sports Network, with its flagship station KJR 950-AM, will carry the live broadcast of every football game to four different states on 25 different radio stations. Longtime play-by-play man Bob • Cornerback Sam Cunningham is the only one of the Rondeau and color analyst Chuck Nelson are joined by sideline reporter Elise Woodward. Furthermore, the 16 Husky seniors who has started every game this year. Apple Cup will air on XM Satellite Radio on Pac-10 Channel 185. WASHINGTON at WASHINGTON STATE • MARTIN STADIUM • NOVEMBER 20, 2004 • 4:00 P.M. PST THE COACH: Husky head coach Keith Gilbertson hit the ground running, as his first official day as the Washington coach was only a month and a day before MEDIA RESOURCES opening the 2003 season against defending national champion Ohio State. How- UW ON THE INTERNET: The Washington athletic department’s official web site can ever, Gilbertson had the advantage of having served as an assistant coach at the be found at www.gohuskies.com. The site features information on all 23 of the Hus- UW for the previous four seasons, his third stint as a Dawg assistant. Nov. 1, it kies’ intercollegiate sports programs. was announced that Gilbertson will step down as coach at the end of the 2004 WASHINGTON STATE ON THE INTERNET: Washington State’s official athletics season. In his first season, the Husky head man managed a 6-6 overall record and website can be found at www.wsucougars.com. a 4-4 Pac-10 mark in a season that was highlighted by the UW’s sixth straight Apple Cup win over Washington State as well as wins over Northwest rivals Or- PAC-10 ON THE INTERNET: The official Pac-10 web site, which includes a copy of egon and Oregon State. Gilbertson, a native of Snohomish, Wash., north of Se- the Pac-10 football release, can be found at the following address: www.pac-10.org. attle, served as a graduate assistant at the UW under Don James in 1976, James’ second season. In 1989, Gilbertson left his head coaching job at Idaho to join the PAC-10 SATELLITE FEED: The Pac-10 runs a weekly satellite feed featuring inter- Washington staff, first as offensive line coach before taking over as offensive co- views and game highlight footage. The 30-minute feed runs every Wednesday at ordinator in 1991, when the Huskies won the national championship and led the 11:00 a.m. PT (2:00 ET), beginning Sept. 8 and running until Dec. 1. Coordinates are: Pac-10 in rushing offense, total offense and scoring offense. In 1992, Gilbertson IA5 / 14 (formerly Telstar 5/14 c-band).